Amazon Made Record Sales with their Smart Home Devices this Christmas

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Alexa was the most downloaded app on Christmas this year, both on
Google Play and Apple App Store. The Alexa companion app helps users
command their smart home devices with the Alexa virtual assistant.
Alexa can be used with a lot of devices like watches, laptops,
thermostats, smoke detectors, etc.

Amazon’s
CEO of worldwide consumer Jeff Wilke stated that more than 1 billion
items were sold, although not specifying the exact sales number.

Some
of the other popular smart home devices they sold were the Echo Dot
smart speaker, Google Home app, Ring Video Doorbell 2, Amazon Smart
Plug, iRobot Roomba 690, TP-Link Kasa Smart Plug Mini Outlet, and
others.

Customers
also spent a lot on Carhartt clothing and accessories, as well as
Champion, Calvin Klein, and UGG brand items, amounting to sales of
over 1 million units.

Amazon
also said that tens of millions of their customers signed up for
Prime trusting them to deliver their orders in time for Christmas. In
the US 1 billion items were shipped with Prime, either through a free
trial or by paying for a membership.